'I'm a big believer that if you're not easy to do business with, if you're not providing partners [information] on how to engage, then you're really going to be struggling,' Puppet's John Schwan tells CRN.

Demand for big data products and services is expected to hit $187 billion by 2019, so it's no wonder 2016 saw a wave of innovative new big data products hitting the market. Here are 10 that caught our attention.

CRN's 2018 MSP 500
With the fast-growing -- and fast-changing -- MSP landscape in mind, CRN has again assembled the MSP 500, an annual list that recognizes North American solution providers with cutting-edge approaches to managed services.